Canada

It's 10 cents a year per Canadian.

Say what you want about their corruption and incompetency, by all means! But the cost to prevent/deter a radical opponent from harming some of our highest government officials is minimal at this point.

I know a lot of folks have good reason to despise some MPs, but do you really want some sort of January 6th insurrection event? If you do, that's a good argument for everyone else to pitch in their dime.

3.4 million is literally peanuts to the system as a whole. Of course the cost is going up because aside from inflation and wage increases you still gotta factor in the increase in crazy folks.

tbf, my American opinion is that we do need to pay to protect the safety of our politicians if we want them to have the courage to stand up to entrenched power. Otherwise its just too easy to cow them. Just because we believe in throwing them out via elections doesn't mean everyone agrees with that method.

Skimping on security seems really stupid right now. There are probably a fair few Canadians who would like to do certain MPs harm... not to mention India has been doing political assassinations.

Must be all those left-wingers who are threatening MPs. it certainly isn't coming from the respectful, open-minded folks on the right.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Former public safety minister Marco Mendicino said the rising price tag reflects a change in the "threat environment" since the pandemic and the Ottawa convoy protest.

In August 2022, after Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was verbally harassed during an event in Grande Prairie, Alta., Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said that he had arranged for private security for his family.

"My wife has received so much horrific material directly to her social media account that we have had to hire a private security firm to protect our family against all of that abuse," Poilievre said during a leadership campaign stop.

"Mr. Blanchet has occasionally benefited from RCMP services, notably during the 2021 election campaign," she said, adding that most of the party's "specific" requests for security protection "are refused."

He pointed to a recent incident which saw protesters upset with Canada's position on the Israel-Hamas war gather outside Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly's home in Montreal.

Pierre-Yves Bourduas, a former deputy commissioner of the RCMP and president of P-Y Safety Management, said Mounties are dealing with a threat environment very different from the one that existed only a few years ago.

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